NicoV

600 lots sold, 85% of them below $500 (and 35% below $100)

In the meantime, you can use the filters ("recently listed") to narrow down your search results to the most recent ones:

On 3/15/2023 at 1:58 PM, Twanj said:

I'm seeing 14,400 new artworks but not a way to discard them.

Only about 30-50 are truly new.

Yes, I had to deactivate the "discard" option for now (it consumes a lot of resources) but I'm working on it.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hi everybody,

I've updated ComicArtTracker to fix a few bugs and prepare for the next big version to come.
Please tell me if there is anything wrong!

On 3/11/2023 at 11:39 PM, Verbow said:

is this the highest paid at auction for a Romita small-art panel page ever?

I don't understand what you mean by "small-art panel page" but at least two panel pages already sold for higher prices:

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/john-romita-sr-and-mike-esposito-the-amazing-spider-man-40-story-page-6-green-goblin-original-art-marvel-/a/7274-91078.s?type=DA-DMC-ComicArtTracker-Comics-7274-06162022

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/john-romita-sr-and-mike-esposito-amazing-spider-man-50-story-page-10-kingpin-original-art-marvel-/a/7270-91046.s?type=DA-DMC-ComicArtTracker-Comics-7270-04072022

On 3/5/2023 at 4:54 PM, Twanj said:

CAT continues to be indispensable. Thank you again!

I've noticed that some of the HA auctions like the international ones have a 25% BP instead of the usual 20%:

https://comics.ha.com/c/auction-home.zx?saleNo=7344&ic=breadcrumb-comics-121913-interior

CAT seems to show the prices under tracked art as having a 20% BP, so it's slightly off.

Also under tracked art for these HA auctions, "active 03/13/2023" when the actual item's end date is 3/11. The full auction ends from 3/10 to 3/12 so if you're following along in tracked art and not going to HA you may miss an auction.

I have to "fix" the 25% BP for International auctions manually and forgot to do it here, it's now done... thanks for reminding me ;-)

As for the auctions end date, that's something that I already tried to fix but with no success for now. Heritage provides an end date which is 13/03/2023 CET or 12/03/2023 PST but when it's divided on several days I only have the final one :-/

On 2/16/2023 at 11:34 PM, MAR1979 said:

What was the median?

 

$230

On 2/13/2023 at 12:23 AM, Michael Browning said:

I added up the premium lots in the C-link auction that ended the other night. In seven and a half pages of “premium” art, the grand total was $231,130. The biggest - and most surprising to me - result in the premium was the Gary Kwapisz Punisher War Journal 57 Ghost Rider splash that sold for $9,855. It was an awesome splash, but, dang, that’s a Saltares/Texeira single-digit issue GR splash price.

Several pieces in the first half of the auction sold for two digits and some sold for as low as a buck each in the second half (the non-premium art auctions).

In fact, the 737 lots sold for $297,221 (58 lots above $1000 and 195 below $100)... which makes a really weak average of $400 / lot!

Did you already try to play with ChatGPT? It's an AI-powered chatbot. I was curious to see what it could answer to my request: "Write a product brief for a website aggregating all original comic art for sale on any dealer, marketplace or auction house website"... and its answer is really close to what ComicArtTracker looks like! 

First try:

Second try ("Regenerate response"): 

Thank you to everyone who answered the survey (~400 answers). I'll let you know the main results as soon as I have some time.

I was surprised to discover that some users still had problems with the daily emails on mobile. Maybe it's Apple / Safari, maybe it's the incognito mode, maybe some privacy settings removing a part of the link or a specific behavior of the "browsers" nested within email apps on mobile. Unfortunately none of these users gave me his email, so I can't ask more questions directly. But I investigated some more, and had a new idea to try to circumvent this behavior and put it in place in today's email.

So if you still had some issues with the daily email recently, please PM me to tell me if it was better or not today (and the days to come).

I need your feedback to continue to irmprove ComicArtTracker!

Still alive and active ... 

It's very personal but I don't have any... I'd rather manually filter tons of useless items than missing one because the seller had the stupid idea to write something like "this is not a photocopy" 

On 12/1/2022 at 3:08 PM, Panelfan1 said:

Is there a way to get email follow up on completed auctions we tracked?  So that we can basically be updated after auctions end or items sell.. perhaps as part of the daily key word email you send out?

Hi! That's an idea, I need to think about it. Probably not in the daily email because, well, not everybody gets it every day depending on their keywords (and how many they have). But I was already considering building a weekly summary with past auctions, auctions to come, maybe notable newly listed art, etc. so maybe I could include a block with tracked auctions that ended during the past week as well. And a weekly email would not be too costly for me.

On 11/30/2022 at 5:22 AM, aaronnear said:

@NicoV Thank you so much. Everything looks good in the new account. Please feel free to delete and rename whenever you have time. Greatly appreciated!

Done!

@aaronnear Sorry, I did not see your message! I checked your two accounts and don't see any difference, that's really weird. I've copied your searches in the new account, tell me when you're sure that it's ok (once you received some email notification) and I'll delete the old account / rename the new one.

On 11/23/2022 at 12:15 PM, Mycroft said:

Is CAT down ? The searches can't end and find 0 results.

Works fine on my side... Do you still have an issue or was it a temporary glitch in the Matrix?

On 11/18/2022 at 12:17 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

Compared to what, Scott?

What's the highest for a Peanuts Sunday?  Around $360K, right?  that one trumps many other Sundays at around $110K

But you can't compare the volume of available Peanuts Sundays with available C&H Sundays...

On 11/17/2022 at 11:54 PM, Rick2you2 said:

Just out of curiosity, is Clink the only site selling/offering art which is not included?

In fact that's quite funny because the two only websites that blocked CAT are the two ones I first built CAT for: ComicLink and The Artist's Choice...

Thanks for your kind words! To date I received 310 answers to the survey, which is both a lot (to work on) and a little (considering the total number of users), but I'm probably in too much of a hurry and need to wait for a few more days! That being said, trends in the responses are already emerging and I am happy to have set up this survey.

So basically it's a hidden fee...

On 11/14/2022 at 2:28 AM, Grant Turner said:

I think, with a big Heritage auction on the immediate horizon, people were more inclined to hold back and gamble later than pay these aspirational prices today.

Not only that but also, for some of us (at least in Europe) , 3-4 large auctions in France/Belgium in the next 30 days. For a long time I felt like European art was really expensive compared to US art, now it's the opposite